By Richard L. Wolfe
(Somewhere in a high school Economics 101 class) The teacher stood up from behind her desk and said, “Barack why didn’t you hand in your assignment?” Barack replies, “My dog Bushy ate my assignment Mrs. Teaberry.” Mrs. Teaberry frowns and says, “This is the third time this month that Bushy has eaten your work; maybe you should consider getting another dog.” Barack bristles at the thought of losing his favorite pet and says, “But, I love Bushy. Besides, if I get rid of him, I won’t have any excuse for not getting my work done.” Mrs. Teaberry has had enough and tells Barack, “Whether, you get rid of Bushy or not, if you want to receive a passing grade you are going to have to finish your assignments on time-and no more excuses! Class is dismissed!”
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By Sunny Fry
1) That my husband is a master camper, and if there's something better than eating McClellanville shrimp by a crackling fire, while sipping Maker's Mark and perched next to a gurgling mountain stream, I don't know what it is.
2) That there is a beautiful plant called jewelweed, which has lovely small orange blossoms beloved by hummingbirds. It is said to be a cure for poison ivy, which is providential, since it is also said it tends to grow in the same area as poison ivy.
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Sunday’s editorial recounts the sad saga of Johnny Smith’s fight to reclaim his abused daughter and laments the state of affairs that made it a fight in the first place.
It’s impossible to say whose tragedy is more devastating: the little girl beaten and savagely abused while under her mother’s care, or her father, who has been confined by cruel bureaucracy for two years from coming to his daughter’s aid.
The girl’s injuries were nothing short of monstrous, allegedly inflicted by the sons of her mother’s new boyfriend: hair torn out, bones broken, reset and broken again as the abuse continued. The trauma she suffered was so severe that, at 3, her speech reverted to baby talk, and being found wandering half-clothed in a busy New York street by passing motorists was actually a high point for her.
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Saturday’s editorial (via Cindi Scoppe at The State) bemoans the state of affairs in our state campaign finance system that led to the recent upbraiding of Sen. Jake Knotts.
We’ve long known about several ways candidates and donors exploit loopholes in the state’s campaign finance law to defeat its twin purposes of limiting how indebted a candidate could become to any individual donor and giving voters the chance to decide whether even what was allowed was too much.
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